Making Conservatives Less Angry

Conservatives are very angry these days. I haven’t seen conservatives this angry since the last time a Democrat was president. So the anger is probably because the president is black. While that might not seem so bad, conservative anger could lead to something disastrous: their mobilizing to vote against Democrats.

If that occurs, what happens to the Democrats’ dream of spending lots of money on seemingly random things? One day the American people will become enlightened enough to surrender democracy to their betters, who would give them such rewards as free (FREE!) health care, but until then conservative anger has to be dealt with. If not, crazy people like Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck will force absolutely anyone who happens to be an avowed Communist out of public office.

Despite the apparent menace, imprisonment of conservatives for their dangerous attitudes is not yet an option (we’ll be pushing that bill right before the midterm elections). Thus we must make other efforts to quell conservative anger. Here are some ideas:

How to make conservatives less angry

Actively ignore them:The most basic strategy to try and keep conservatives from being so angry is to never, ever listen to them. If they try to discuss an issue with you, just cover your ears and scream, “Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!” If they realize there is no chance we’ll even listen to them, maybe they’ll decide to just give up trying to have their uneducated viewpoints.

Call them racists: If we shout “Racist!” every time they say something, maybe they’ll finally reflect on the racism that motivates them against a black president and give up whatever silly cause they think they’re pushing. If they dispute the racism accusation, point out how sensitive they are about the charge and how that further proves it’s true (people who really aren’t racist shouldn’t have any problem with being called racist). If further evidence is needed, point out to them that the president is black and they are white and that it’s obvious to everyone that a white person saying bad things about an underprivileged black person is quite racist. If the conservative isn’t white, though, this can be confusing. Make sure to give that person a pamphlet describing the political views he is supposed to have based on his race. If the person doesn’t read the pamphlet, you might have to try using a racial slur. It’s okay, if the person deserves it.

Point out how much smarter Obama is than they are:Obama is obviously very smart (obviously!), but somehow conservatives are overlooking that simple fact. Maybe they’ll be less angry if we keep emphasizing how Obama and his staff are much, much smarter than they are, and in fact they are very stupid compared to Obama and other liberals. Then conservatives will realize that Obama, being smarter than them, probably knows what he’s doing, so there is nothing to fear and be angry about unless you’re a really stupid person.

Use sexual slurs:Conservatives are made uncomfortable by sex talk because of their Jesus person, so associating sexual slurs with everything they do might make them uncomfortable and cause them to give up their protests. For example, when conservatives started having “tea parties,” we started using the slur “tea baggers” to describe them. Any good liberal should know tons of terms describing lewd sexual acts, so be creative!

Make sure no one in the media addresses their concerns:If conservatives can’t get any confirmation of their silly, angry views in the media, maybe they’ll give them up. This has been a problem since talk radio and Fox News came along, though. Still, a boycott of people like Glenn Beck seems to have had some effect. If we can force him off the air, maybe then conservatives will instead watch Keith Olbermann and learn to be calm and reasoned.

Disparage their values: Everyone wants to have popular values, so if we ridicule their values maybe they’ll discard them and instead have the more popular values of the smart people on TV. So always laugh at them if they bring up the invisible sky fairy they worship so they know that’s a dumb belief. Also laugh at any patriotic beliefs they have. Yes, it seems like patriotism should be okay since Obama is now the leader of their country, but somehow it still makes me uncomfortable. Anyway, liking the country is a conservative thing and is part of what makes them angry, so let’s make them stop that.

Threaten them with violence: Finally, we can always use physical threats to get them to not be angry. I don’t mean we should shoot them like when those anti-choice people were shot recently (though that is understandable since conservatives are so dangerous and violent that they have to be stopped by any means necessary), but we could at least rough them up. Yes, most liberals are kinda, well, too puny to do that, but there are always union thugs who are smart enough to do whatever liberals tell them.

Liberals finally have a chance to block conservatives from government forever, but we can’t accomplish that if they’re always angry and keep trying to stop us. That’s why it’s important that we all do everything we can to stop conservative anger. I know many of you are already doing some of the items I outlined, but we need further efforts to stop this dangerous anger from crazy conservatives — anger which stems from them talking about the issues. We want to have an enlightened country where new viewpoints are welcome, but we can’t ever have that if conservatives ever speak — ever. They are all just so crazy angry. I hate them so much and want to bash in their faces until they shut up!

Frank J. Fleming is the author of the novel Superego and the humor book Punch Your Inner Hippie, has penned numerous political humor columns, blogs at IMAO.us, and is at Home Depot, buying a door

You see, if they only understood how “defending the Constitution” was
absolutely against “The New American (soon to be modernized to Amerikkkan) Way”…
…and almost in a Nazi-kinda way…I’m sure they’d see the errors of their ways….

AND… if their leaders have teenage daughters you can brand those daughters as whores to the whole country and make jokes about popular sports figures raping them, that should shut those outspoken leaders up! Whaaaat? What’s wrong with that?

Tell them that if they don’t get their information about the world primarily from the New York Times, Washington Post or any of the other half-dozen publications on the leftist list of approved news sources, than nothing they say has any credibility.

Know what calms me down when I am angry? When liberals lie to me. That’s what they need more of. President Obama should go on TV twice every day (yes, double time) and tell blatant falsehoods. That should do it. He doesn’t even need to make up new lies. He can use the same old lies and that will work just as well.

Excellent article!! Too bad soooo many of the lib/trolls actually believe it. . .If any lib/union bunghole would try the violence thing here where I reside, they would be taken away on a stretcher, or in a bag. . . Wish they would hold the G20 here in the South. . .

I think Mr. Fleming’s article was pretty good, but being a conservative I’m not sure why. Maybe the Dems are right, I’m not smart enough to understand the big picture. Guess I’ll take a happy pill and have a nap.

Those stupid hillbillys! They can’t be angry cause they’re astroturf. REAL Americans are always angry like liberals cause liberals are grassroots. EVERYONE knows that cause it’s on the blogs and stuff.

No one can disagree with this because if they do, it’s hate speech; and free speech isn’t hate speech so SHUT UP ARGHHAGSHAGSHHDHAGH.

Good article Frank, but if you think you know some angry conservatives, you ought to meet some of the folks that post on this site. Some of them make the devil look like a kitten. I posted an entry on the abortion issue, quite neutral and nice actually and the response from Francis of Preggo or something made my short hairs curl. They are not happy Frank, not happy….at all. I am lucky being an Independent cuz I can understand both sides. My doctor says I will live longer that way…plus with national health..much cheaper too. Thanks Frank.

Also don’t forget that you can always distract them by threatening to take their guns away. When you do that they get so focused on preventing that from happening that they loose track of everything else. That is the perfect opportunity to slip in all the other things you want.

Judging from the polls lately, the best way is to let them roll around in their own filth on television for a month, then organize a march where they get to show how ignorant and racist they are [while revealing that the majority of them are extreme Christian wingnuts waiting for the rapture]. They get it out of their system and disappear again. Meanwhile, the majority of the country moves on having been completely unaffected by the rightwing meltdown and tantrum.

I see that GE/Obama owned NBC brought up with Bill Clinton yesterday his thoughts on a vast right wing conspiracy. I guess Bill and Hillary still think that it was a right wing conspiracy in which Monica Lewinsky was planted in the White House so that he could later lie under oath about what occured in the oral office.

You will note that NBC has had interviews with Jimmy Carter, Barack Hussein Obama, and now Bill Clinton in the last week to discuss the conservatives opposition to Obama’s policies. GE has so much invested in Obama they are pulling out all the stops.

There is a planned march on the media in October, and if the protesters are smart they will direct their attention to GE/Obama, and all the NBC affiliates. Let freedom ring.

I guess Bill and Hillary still think that it was a right wing conspiracy in which Monica Lewinsky was planted in the White House so that he could later lie under oath about what occured in the oral office.

That’s the term Hillary used, even a “vast” RWC, just before the truth about her husband’s…troubles…came to be splashed all over the planet.

During the campaign, Bill Clinton indicated he had no use for Obama, the guy opposing wifey, of whom BC said (correctly

“He has the instincts of a Chicago thug.”

Yesterday, BC is all up into the self-righteous thing, that the VRWC wants Barry to fail.

Actually it’s the whole country that is angry (Rasmussen says 72%). Therefore we need to do some things to calm down the Progressive.

1. Tell them you believe them that there aren’t death panels in their health care bill. Tell them there will be “Life Committees” instead.

2. Tell them Bush started this whole deficit spending thing and when he reached $600 billion in deficit spending that certainly explains why Obama has to spend $2 trillion this year but will cut that in half by his second term. Imagine that! He will get us down to just a trillion dollar deficit.

3. Tell them you agree that Nazi’s were right winged socialists who showed how right winged they were with Hitler’s quote, “public need before private greed.” While the slogan of the Nazi Party was “Everything must be different!” or “Alles muss anders sein!” Definitely right wing rhetoric.

4, Tell them that only Obama can save the planet and you believe them he will do this with a “Cap and Trade” system. Tell them by increasing the cost of fossil fuels by only a smidgin we can radically alter how much people use this fuel. Also mention you don’t care what the science is now, you still believe in AGW.

5. Finally tell the leftist on your block that they are right about the Tea Parties not being real (astroturf) while busing in ACORN and SEIU people to the townhall meetings was real democracy in action. Reassure them that they can sleep in on election day 2010 because their vote will not be needed for leftist causes that day.

So, in the same spirit, here are some ways to soothe the leftist soul….

1. In art…
Skip the Degas, hide the Mona Lisa, re-bury all the Greek and Roman stuff, and instead show them photos of a crucifix dunked in feces and watch them get misty-eyed with ecstasy.

2. Forget the Ansel Adams. Show them Annie Leibowitz photos of breast-feeding sexagenarian celebrities. Or you could just take them to one of the near-ubiquitous exhibits of photographers who specialize in cavorting nude toddlers, on display now in the poorly-lit hallway of a community college student union near you. Or you could just turn on the internet for them and leave the room.

In music…

1. Just let them watch television commercials and watch their excitement and proclaim the deity status of an embalmed Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, who have just come on to hawk credit cards.

2. Never, ever mention Johnny Ramone.

In food…

1. Suffer through their fascination with nearly inedible “health” food, questionable ethnic food bought from marginal sources and obsession with “free trade” coffee and tea. Starbucks has become too run-of-the-mill for most of them, however.

2. Don’t say anything when, after an hour-long sermon about food delivered over a borderline nauseating meal, they go home and crack open the mega-value pack of Twinkies they got from Sam’s Club.

3. Hide the Sierra Nevada when they come over to your house for a visit, or they’ll drink every drop. Maybe have some nice, proletarian Pabst Blue Ribbon on hand to let them strike a working-class pose or two.

In literature…

1. Suggest they sign up for a graduate level course entitled “The Age of Dryden”…which covers nothing but Aphra Behn.

2. Less Shakespeare. More Leslie Marmon Silko.

3. Whatever you do, never ever refer to Maus as a comic book.

In film…

1. Smile and nod politely as you listen to them tell of how they were lifted to heights of rapture by the “aesthetic transcendence” of the violence of the Kill Bill series…and then, in the next breath, decry the “pointlessness” of the graphic violence in The Passion of the Christ.

“SurveyUSA data gathered 08/19/09. SurveyUSA data collection for this project was underwritten by MoveOn.org. Poll respondents did not hear MoveOn’s name. SurveyUSA is an independent research company and does not endorse any particular cause or ideology. SurveyUSA has no stake in the outcome of any health-care legislation and is a disinterested party in the health-care debate. ”

If I linked to a poll that was bought and paid for by Freedomworks would you take anything it said seriously??

No? I didn’t think so. Please be as ofended as you feel nessary when I don’t take a poll from Moveon.org as anything serious or worth considering.

“The president’s problem isn’t that he is too visible; it’s the lack of content in what he says when he keeps showing up on the tube. Obama can seem a mite too impressed with his own aura, as if his presence on the stage is the Answer. There is, at times, a self-referential (even self-reverential) tone in his big speeches. They are heavily salted with the words “I” and “my.” (He used the former 11 times in the first few paragraphs of his address to the U.N. last week.)”

VIVO/BC/MOHO et al effeminate turtleneck man purse guys…Did you know that before sweet little Barry was licking Putin’s boots clean he was servicing a slum lord? Ah yes, you forgot, being held aloft on the wings of rapture that have freed you from the bad ol Bushies? Do you know what? You’re being laughed at.

4, Tell them that only Obama can save the planet and you believe them he will do this with a “Cap and Trade” system. Tell them by increasing the cost of fossil fuels by only a smidgin we can radically alter how much people use this fuel. Also mention you don’t care what the science is now, you still believe in AGW.

And tell them how impressed you were at Obama’s BIG RANT on the importance of proper tire inflation during the campaign, how we can, you know, essentially take care of the fossil fuel thingy if we simply whipped out the ole tire gauge more often.

…they go home and crack open the mega-value pack of Twinkies they got from Sam’s Club.

I hope you don’t mean to suggest that Leftoids are hypocrites, God forbid !

Did Obama tell us the truth about his beliefs? Yes, he did, and you’ll find it on http://www.claysamerica.com along with notes on a new book THE CHANGING FACE OF DEMOCRATS available on Amazon.com, which compares 19th century libertarian Democrats with 20th century socialist Democrats.

Don’t waste your time trying to understand how conservatives think, that’s impossible, because they don’t have thoughts, only reflexes.

This why we have never been able to convince them of anything, they cannot even begin to understand our generosity, our compassion, our open mind, the sincerity of our wishes for peace and harmony, let alone our superior intellect.

If their apparently unquenchable anger bothers you so much, it’s a sure sign that you have been sloppy in the execution of you counterclinging campaign: Just remember: Never allow a crucifix to be displayed unless sufficiently urinated, never let any camera accidentally hide the bestiality of our military personnel, never let a violent criminal exposed to the rigors of our oppressive justice system, and above all, eliminate all fetuses you come across before they get noisy, because he or she might grow up and some day become another angry conservative, and you’d have to start from square one all over again. Come on, you can do it!

The main problem with wingnuts is that they have the wrong interests. They are interested in things like liberty, national sovereignty, and looking out after themselves, when they should be interested in government redistribution of income.

Also, because of their silly “God” hang-up, they don’t regard advanced academic degrees with the proper reverence. They actually think that Ph.D.s are still fallible.

Lessee. How about we get our man Cat … er … Yusef to raise lots more money singing Peace Train and If I Had a Boeing 737, send it to the madrassas and train more anti-anger agents to find a final solution to conservative anger. Dead conservatives are quiet conservatives. However, this time though, only crash into red state buildings, my brave brothers!

I had no idea you had so many liberal believers, that follow your every utterance, so faithfully. It’s early yet, but I predict that by sun down the liberal commenters here will have followed every one of your “calming” techniques, and/or their corollaries.

Hope I didn’t let the cat out of the bag, and ruin your social experiment. teh heh

billslayer
Actually I have a doctorate myself, in clinical pharmacy. Yes, it did take a lot of work… but so does becoming a proficient diesel engine mechanic. God blessed me with good parents – my Dad made me do things like fix farm tractors and haul hay when I was growing up.

tanstaafl
Heh. An ‘expert’ is one who knows more and more about less and less, until they know everything there is to know about nothing.

Hmpf. Both sides still think the problem is left vs right, when it’s government tyranny vs freedom.

Listening to the dialogue these days is like listening to Pee Wee Herman argue, “I know you are, but what am I?”

When both sides stop saying, “There oughta be a law!” or, “The government oughta do something!” and stop trying to control other people’s lives, we just may – may – be able to restore The Constitution.

Of course, if we dothat, there’ll be no government welfare programs of any kind, including social security. It also means that the IRS goes away and that the Federal reserve gets shut down. It also means that there’ll be no standing military, or at least, a greatly reduced standing military. It means that there’ll be no more 501(c)3′s and what have you, as well as no more lobbyists…or, come to that, no more national conglomerates buying politicians. That’s because there won’t be any national conglomerates, including banks. It means that 527′s and their kin all go away and that no group or individual will be able to buy political ads in Iowa, when they live and operate in New York. The list of problems that just simply disappear when you actually follow The precepts and ideals of The Constitution is quite extensive.

The only problem is that such a scenario would leave the left and the right with very little to argue about. Well, they could argue about it, but they wouldn’t be able to force their agendas down anyone else’s throats.

Start up their own damn health insurance company and leave me out of their idiotic costly schemes. Call it “We’re Only Going To Bankrupt Ourselves And Not The Entire Country Insurance” and pay their executives $1/year “salary”.

I think what will make a lot of the ultra-conservative sausage links on here steam is a recovering economy. Once things bounce back, and people start to feel better, the masses will remember how crazy the crazies are.

MIDDLEMAN/MOHO:You guys seem to LOVE it so here’s yet another visual, Picture this: Your messiah, stepping up to the mic, about to use his mighty oratorial skills to convince the slumlord to give him money. And he must have been VERY persuasive because the slumlord gave him LOTS of money. And you know it.

Middleman:Actually people will see the recovering economy and wonder exactly what that $787 billion was for given that it had no measurable impact of the economic recovery and failed in it’s primary metric of impacting the rate of unemployment. Try again.

To Mr Lucky: Actually I did for a bit. There was also a mild typo in my list — I had intended to write: 2) Never bring up *controversial* subjects like science, math and history. Although, if had to rewrite it, it would now be more like “Never bring up controversial subjects like science, math, history, economics, the weather, current events, television shows other that Top Gear, newspapers, blog sites, movies other than those made by Pixar, art, religion, philosophy, and culture.”

All people have a sense of humor but I find it ironic that the party of the South claims to have the silent majority and the common sense to dictate to us fake Americans (liberals) what self proclaimed real Americans ( conservatives) know to be the best for all. That way every American can enjoy your higher than average poverty rates , teen pregnancy , low birth rates , spending on porn , etc. etc. etc. Using most every measure available , the GOP controlled states do not fare as well as Democrat controlled states. Even then , these Democratic controlled states are behind much of the rest of the 1st world nations in math , science , longevity of life etc. etc. etc. At least we’re ahead of you real Americans. I really don’t mean to polarize ,just the facts. By the way , I am not mad

The electorate swings , you guys had your turn at ruining our nation , now it’s our turn to ruin this nation. On average , the progressive philosophy of ruination has resulted in a rising economy , lower debt and small things like civil rights and winning WWII. But I quibble.

#62, I think that trend got reversed a few years back. Now, most of the money people are Democrat. There really are a lot of very rich Dems these days. Hollywood money, just about all of Wall Street is Dem. Rich union guys are all Dem. I don’t have a cite, just what I observe from various bits of reading around.

If we take over the Capitol building with our same 70,000 people that was there on 9/12. We would be calm because congress could not enact legilation that angers us. It worked for those silly people who shut down their Capital in Tennessee in 1999 when the Republican governor decide to have a special session of the legislature to pass a state income tax. Fun how Tennessee still doen’t have an income tax. And I bet the conservatives in Tennesse still remain calm about a state income tax that their legislature is afraind to even mention.

#71 The south bashing has gotten old. There are over a 100,000,000 americans living in the south, and it has four of the top ten largest cities. Texas has had the number one economy the last two years, and created 70% of all new jobs in 2008. Also Texas had a $9 billion dollar surplus.

BTW….California’s public schools rank #49 out of 50 in performance, and we all know about their great economy.

When Wyndham Lewis wrote his book “Men Without Art” (you have read it, right?), as well as the chapters in “Time and Western Man” on Pound, Joyce and Stein, all of which are now rightly considered classic and extremely insightful analyses of these authors, he hit the nail right on the head in his argument that basically all modern art was childish sentimentalism, especially the most popular modern art, most of which, especially in the visual arts, could have been done by a child locked in a room with some paint and a canvas.

Funny thing is, Lewis was a socialist, but he was, unlike all American socialists or people of the Left, a person who was capable of actual thinking. For that reason, he has my utmost respect, despite his many flaws.

Tell ‘em Bush set the stage for the econ mess we’re in now. when they cry about carter, show them a graph of deficits; remind them (they need reminding–always crying about Carter like he’s still in office), that Bush neevr vetoeed one spending bill; ask them what cost control was exercised on the war–any? Where?

Tell ‘em they once opposed the EPA too: another liberal innovation that Nixon finally signed: still ahte that one too?

republicans are just people that need to catch up with history. They’re a little slow. best way to calm them down: talk slow.

This one doesn’t make any sense, why would anyone get angry at the mention of that fat socialist weasel, I’ve been getting a lot of laughs out of these ads for Mike’s newest “artistic impression”, Capitalism: A Love Story. Apparently, capitalism is only bad when you aren’t using capitalism to make money by mocking capitalism, and then spending it on a push for a BMI of 50. Speaking of which, how many of those millions of dollars has Mikey spent digging his ****hole of a hometown out of the hole its been in for some years now? That’s right, why bother practicing what you preach(for the “common good”) when you can spend that money gorging your fat belly and crossing your fingers that Joe Citizen will pay for your Obamacare bypass after your heart attack at the age of 45.

I don’t know what you have against Top Gear, except that they like cars, and I suppose you like bicycles (because you like to wear the tight spandex halloween costume with the silly ineffectual clam shell helmet?). But I would assume that when you speak about science you follow such great scientists as Al Gore, Joe Biden, and Henry Waxman.
Why is it that people like you assume that if others don’t agree with you they must then be ignorant nobs? In my life I have been a young Marxist, a young radical (spent time in prison for protesting a war…what have you done for your “beliefs”?), become a conservative Democrat and finally just a conservative reading the works of Lewis, Eliot, Kirk, Podhoretz, Trilling, Kristol and Hook. oh, and the Talmud, the old Jewish bible, and the Douay bible. Oh, and I’ve worked for two Nobel prize winners in Physics, written a published book in electromagnetics, and also have published more than 40 articles in journals and conferences. What have you done?
It’s rather sad to see someone with a world view that relies entirely on vituperation and demeaning the views and ideas of people who don’t believe that you do. Do you get some satisfaction in thinking yourself intellectually superior to people you have never met? Or, even more sad, do you just do this to rile people? To get reactions that you can smirk at.
Well, smirk away, and at the end, you may well wonder…why?

“Although, if had to rewrite it, it would now be more like ‘Never bring up controversial subjects like science, math, history, economics, the weather, current events, television shows other that Top Gear, newspapers, blog sites, movies other than those made by Pixar, art, religion, philosophy, and culture.’”

Then why bring up anything with someone who disagrees with you?

Now and Then, vivo, Moho, Middleman, David S., et al. When was the approval given to use Barack Obama’s middle name?

#81 thinkfast…I have been saying that I would happily contribute to an ad campaign exposing Moore, and his elitist leftist friends in Hollywood. They all live in opulence, and make tens of millions per year while complaining about the excesses of capitalism.

We should shame these hypocrites into redistributing all their personal wealth to the poor. That will shut them up, and maybe they will eventually make a movie worth watching.

and by the way, I’m tired of all the chickenhawk leftist protesters that have never put their convictions on the line and faced prison to support their convictions. They have plenty of time to denounce conservatives who have never spent time in the service yet still support war. Well, folks, it goes the other way…when have you ever put your beliefs on the line and faced jail time?
During Vietnam, you want to try and count the number of big time protesters that actually spent any time behind bars? I know what it is, I was there, I met some of them, and they mostly cared about where the TV cameras were and how to best show themselves, and almost none of them spent any time behind bars. David Harris spent time in jail…but how many others?

We need to run an ultra-conservative african american for POTUS in 2012, and use the race card on the liberal media for not supporting a 100% black candidate instead of a half white candidate. It would be fun to watch.

Did anyone else catch Beckel on Hannity tonight when he stated that he had never had a conservative friend ever make a racist statement, whereas he could not say the same for his liberal friends? He may regret making that statement.

I’m STILL waiting for someone to point out to me the CV/resume of the folks entitled to bestow Mr. Obama with “really smart”. All I’ve seen so far is (Jim)Jonestown devotion to the “Alinski Challenge”, with the “Chicago Style” of “political” persuasion.

I know SEVERAL holders of a “certificate of attendance” from inexplicably expensive institutions(suitable for framing) that don’t fit the MENSA, or
Intertel, parameters of “really smart”!

Obviously, the folks in Stockholm have repeatedly proved themselves as viable as Wikipedia in recognizing “really smart”, so THEY’RE out.

Speaking of Michael Moore, there is s book I read quite few years back about many of the lefties in Hollywood and in DC. The book is Do as I Say, Not as I Do. I don’t remember the author, but includes Hill-Billary, Al Franken, Ralph Nader and others.

When the person using it wasn’t doing so to imply he was a Muslim terrorist.

mmmmm, mmmm, mmmm…

In fact, Barack’s “people” made using Hussein a no-no during the campaign.

The in your pocket, MSM (morally superior media)* were only too happy to oblige.

But then Barry as POTUS got out there on the sundry Apology Tours and, suddenly, it was Hussein this and Hussein that. He seemed proud as punch of his deep understanding of Moose-lums and Iz-LAM (best I can do for his pretentious pronunciations)

How hilarious to watch the ‘libtard’ moonbat Trolls and the confessed ARAB Mohammedan JEW HATER MOHO make absolute fools of themselves. BTW Now and Then it only became acceptable to call the Mohammedan BOGUS POTUS after he WON when the MSM and his controllers no longer needed to worry about the TRUTH of his Mohammedanism getting out.

As for the Union thugs, I would love nothing more than to meet a few of these people,one at a time or all at once, because after it was all said and done the UNION would be answering to a civil and maybe criminal Racketeering/Hobbs Act charge[s], while their goons are being served the litigation papers in the intensive care unit of their local hospital, or on the family members or the Administor[s] of their
estate[s].

I’ve already been down this road before in my life, in US vs. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters/La Cosa Nostra. The REAL MOB. Those who play the “HIT” called “Trunk Music”.

The sissies in todays Unions all sit down when they have to take a WEE-WEE for that thrill running down their leg. The goons are so use to selling their dumb brainwashed members out with fear/intimidation they’d never know what happened.

It’s called Sand-Bagging to the tenth degree, because they haven’t a clue of what I know or have been through in this arena. Play my cards right they’ll make in into a Millionaire.

The Feds should take a long hard look at SEIU and see if there is any olive oil running out from under the front door or the strong oder of garlic is present, that may be their first clue.

Question; IS THE SEIU MOBBED-UP? DOJ should find out before some one gets hurt, maimed, or worse. They could be culpable for damages depending on what they knew and when they knew it by allowing violent Racketeering violations to continue for political purposes to serve the White House.

Remember, the White House, OBAMA expressed “Get in their face” & “We’ll hit back harder”.
I can invision the depositions now.

Also, Missouri has lawful conceal and carry. The 2nd Amendment would be enforced carefully under the guidelines of Missour Law, however with extreme prejudice in a lawful manner of self defense if need be. They’d never see their pensions let alone collect!

#71 Shopman, your superiority complex won’t do you much good come 2010. Your messiah has messed things up so royally, it will be years and years before “progressives” get another chance.
One thing you failed to point out – it’s the blue states’ economies that are falling apart right now – California, New York, Michigan.

“So the anger is probably because the president is black. While that might not seem so bad, conservative anger could lead to something disastrous: their mobilizing to vote against Democrats.”

I smell fear in the air, they are beginning to get that they have hit the tripwire that America has always had. The one that shoots up a flare and says,.. whooa, don’t trust these guys, they ARE NOT on your side.

We did it in 94, we’ll do it again.

The more afraid the left is of loosing power after having come so close to getting what they have schemed for decades, a one party super state, the more dangerous and violent they’ll become. It’s not the right that’ll become unhinged, but the left when it slips away.

How many union goons on regular citizen beatings and vandalizations does it take, for the average democat to admit, they have a problem with violence? How many arrests of right leaning vs. leftwing nuts does it take? Hundreds of arrests last year for dem on republican violence,..

and they still lie about it.

“A Texas woman faces trial this month in Austin on charges she threatened to kill a government informant who infiltrated an Austin-based group that planned to bomb the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., last fall.

At The Weekly Standard, Mary Katherine Ham sums it up:

Just so we’re clear: two left-wingers planned to bomb police cars outside the RNC, and their allies rallied behind them by threatening informants with violence, and we hear nary a word about it. Where is the widespread condemnation and discouragement of such violence in the name of anti-war, Bush-hating beliefs by our friends on the left? Where is the requisite orgy of self-examination and brow-furrowing about the future of a country populated by such people?”

I’m so sick of leftwing hypocrisy on who is violent, I couldn’t throw things…… I do airmail stuff actually, but I live by John Wayne’s code, I won’t be lied too, won’t be insulted, won’t be laid a hand on,.. I don’t do these things to others, and I require the same from them.

The pseudo-intellectual hubris of liberals never ceases to amaze me. I am perfectly willing to grant that there are smart folks with graduate degrees on the Left, but the ad hominen-spouting leftists like Moho and his ilk can never bring themselves to admit the same of the Right (leaving aside the larger question of whether advanced degrees are any sign of common sense and ability to logically reason). I remember one of my doctoral dissertation committee members telling me once, back in the late-90s, about the “anti-intellectualism” of the GOP. This was when Dr. (Ph.D., History) Newt Gingrich was Speaker, and prominent GOP leaders included Dr. Dick Armey (Econ, Ph.D.) and Dr. Phil Gramm (Econ, Ph.D.), Dr. Bill Frist (M.D.). I live in the GA Congressional district of Dr. (M.D.) Tom Price which is described thusly by Wikipedia in terms of demographics:
51% of residents in the district have at least a Bachelor’s Degree. The residents in this district are largely white, very affluent, well-educated, and overwhelmingly Republican with fiscal conservatism being by far the most salient feature….”
Tom Sowell’s book “The Vision of the Anointed” clearly spells out the hubris of the Left regarding their self-styled intellectual superiority: it’s based not on their own overrated intelligence, but on their claims (and smug self-assurance) of moral superiority.
And thus it’s rather difficult to reason with such folks.

Iran tries to acquire nuclear weapons with the stated aim of genocide against Israel. This requires liberals to understand the root causes of the Iranian anger against Israel, and liberals conclude that Israel should unilaterally do whatever any Muslims ask of them, even it involves retreat into the Mediterranean beyond the “up to the navel” level of water.

US Conservatives state opposition to socialism from Democrats and Republicans alike. Liberals immediately demonize conservatives as raaaaacists and their opposition to socialism as ignorance and terrorism and violence and raaaaacism!

A simple solution would be for US Conservatives to start trying to acquire nuclear weapons. Liberals would immediately condemn themselves for pushing conservatives to this extreme, just as they condemn Israel for forcing Iran to hate them, and would likely commit mass suicide in atonement for their imagined sins against conservatism.

Problem solved. And the US Conservatives would have nukes to use against Iran, as a bonus!

The great thrill of political geeks of our culture now, and maybe always, is to be able to berate, if not hate, the other side. Most of us, left, right, and even I in the squishy middle are so entertainment-oriented that the titillation of blasting the other side (and in my case there are two of them) trumps just about anything else.

There has been some moderately entertaining sniping here, but this topic is such an equal opportunity target, that it’s hard to get much traction here. I’ll try to do better next time.

To Kevin S: “Shhhhoooommmmm” although it’s more effective when said while passing one’s hand above one’s head. If you’re referring to the quote in #107, trying leaving off “caudex,” and then Googling with quotes around the rest.

While we’re on the subject of angry conservatives, did anybody see this new Starbucks commercial for their new instant coffee? Short but kind of cute I think.

Conservatives have been angry for a long time. The problem is that a lot of the moderates are angry now too. They feel cheated because they voted for a charismatic, sane, middle of the roader, fiscal conservative that EVERYONE could agree with, who seemed like an end to the culture war, who represented an end to racism, and who could finally get things done without a lot of accusations and bull crap. They were warned by the crazier portion of the Republican types that he was not what he claimed but they just shook their heads and voted for him anyway because they thought the Republicans were just mad about losing the public confidence and about no one liking Bush.

It turned out that the crazy republicans were right. The of so smart independents and moderates who don’t vote along party lines realized that between the president and congress they had created a giant shoe that was about to drop on them. Their new president claimed a nearly infinite mandate, called anyone who disagreed with him a racist america hating redneck homophobe pieces of crap. These moderates who thought they had a better shinier Reagan who ended all racism because he was the first black president, got to realize that all they really had was an endless campaign mode from a clueless leftard who makes them feel like Jimmy Carter is back only this time he’s twice as stupid. Unemployment has stayed high, credit has stayed scarce, we are spending so much money that it looks like the US will be considered a credit risk to other nations, the dollar is falling, Congress wants to raise taxes and the foreign policy is so incompetent that it looks more like surrender than international relations.

Now they feel like suckers and they are mad. They are trying to get the punch drunk republican party to wake up and join them to try and hold up all this crap until the next election allows for more than token resistance.

The French are calling the US a bunch of incompetent, treacherous, insane, wimps and what’s worse, they are essentially RIGHT about it. Meanwhile the state department is tryign to figure out how to drop kick Honduras down the throat of Chavev’s Marxist alliance. Children in schools are being encouraged to publically pray to Obama in chant form, giving the public the idea that they should be invoking him as if her were an immortal supernatural entity who can intervene in their lives.

To James Gottlieb: Have you and your kind ever thought about, well, being helpful and constructive rather than huffing and puffing all red faced over imaginary nonsense? You might want to try it sometime instead of being a poster boy for the now stereotyped angry and wildly confused conservative.

It’s not hard to write something that you think is clever and shows up the person you’re talking to. I’ll grant I had no idea you were describing a hand passing over the head to indicate that the person missed the point. However, no one missed your over-arching point: you hold anyone who disagrees with you in contempt. That’s really your problem and not mine, though it is interesting to respond to see where your thoughts go.

Any time you want to try and make a real point about anything then feel free. Otherwise, I hope your highly vague yet self righteous outburst impressed you a tad bit more than it has impressed me. I’m sure it is the sort of thing that would generally impress “your kind” though. To me it just looked like a typical, quickie, form letter style put down that could have come from a metaphorical can.

The main aim of your response appears to be expressing your sense of entitlement to a position of intellectual superiority from which you hope to be able to systematically dispense or withhold “legitimacy” based on your own reactionary dislike of strong words or opinions that conflict with your own. Sadly I am able to withstand this brand of ersatz peer pressure mostly because I do not regard you as a peer.

What does ‘helpful and constructive’ even mean to you? Does it mean agreeing with a highly stupid Democrat agenda in the vain hope that if I do so you’ll stop implying I’m not as smart as you and “your kind” ?

I don’t want to help Obama or the democrats do an end run around the constitution to Europeanize the country I live in. I don’t think leftist ideas are constructive so much as they are utopian and therefore destructive. I’m really not interested in collaborating with the democrat agenda because I strongly disagree with it and its addled proponents.

I have little to no use for smugly ignorant web-goons who encourage others to live in perpetual mortal dread of ever resembling a stereotype, especially when that stereotype was created expressly to intimidate the spineless into shutting up and quietly going along with the latest leftist bid to promote and implement the stupid quasi-marxist fad du jour. The agenda I oppose is not imaginary and is not nonsense though the premises by which it is being justified mostly ARE a lot of nonsense.

My goal is to “help” a bunch of leftist politicians out of their offices come November 2010. I hope to play a small roll in the “construction” of a better Congress that regularly resorts to reading bills before voting on them and actually listens to angry consituents without sneering, threatning, or prevarication.

‘Huffing, puffing, and red faced’ don’t really apply to typed words. While you have demostrated that you have a fantastic imagination, I really have to wonder why you bothered responding with your brief, witless, uninformative collection of platitudinous tripe that was mainly about characterizing me instead of addressing anything I said.

Good luck with your trolling and your desire to apply the “wildly confused conservative” label will nilly until someone foolishly takes your heckling seriously and begins to worry about staying within what passes for your good graces.

The “anti-intellectual” charge is mostly about diverting serious criticism of the product of intellectuals.

It’s not so much about people reflexively refusing to listen to the arguments of intelletctuals and fairly evaluate. The anti intellectual charge attemps to condemn anyone who inconveniently refuses to succumb to the suggestion that qualified intellectuals should be allowed to argue entirely by Ethos. They want potential opponents to blindly accept their work entirely on the grounds of their academic qualifications and avoid anyone looking for (and finding) errors, fraud, begging the question, plagiarism, or sometimes a distinct lack of any useful or comprehensible content. Anyone who wants to poke through their data or bibliogrpahy is up to no good and probably is motivated entirely by an irrational hostility towards scholarship and intellectuals in general.

In short it’s a nasty hybrid of:

1.) an ad hominem attack (by questioning me, you are showing yourself to be the sort of guy who instinctively hates rational thought and promotes ignorance and superstition)

2.) a straw man argument (ergo, this isn’t really about the validity of my work…it’s about your hatred of academia and therefore your arguments can’t really be motivated by any valid problem with my work. Let’s talk about your REAL problem…you have an anti-intellectual mind set.)

3.) and a tautology (people who attack my work do so because they are anti-intellectual therefore only anti-intellecuals attack my work, therefore anyone who attacks my work MUST be an anti-intellectual…therfore…)

The “anti-intellectual” charge, besides being construct of Manichaean conflict pitting US(yay!) vs. THEM(Boo! hiss!) makes the whole “intellectual” status a sort of impenetrable vacuole in which anyone can hide a great deal of malice, malpractice, or incompetentce while launching mad sally after mad sally against the fortresses of intuition, good sense, analysis, logic, history, and reason. These mad sallies eventially form a prison of platitudes and cliches and propaganda that gradually replaces curiosity. Before long everybody “knows” stuff that was never really demonstrated to be true or useful and to go against it is the sin of a primitive societal backslider or an anti-intellectual.

For instance in women’s studies, “the rule of thumb” is comkonly cited as an ancient historical reference to the legality of wife beating in ancient patriarchal Rome(supposedly) documented in a (nonexistent) body of law laid down by (a poeic mythical figure who may never have existed) Romulus, the first king of Rome (who was suckled by a she wolf along with his twin).

Theory, claptrap, poor cursory scholarship, and outright balderdash all beging to take on the shine of truth under the aegis of an academic who in turn takes shelter behind his or her qualifications. Naturally anyone who tries to challenge such shoddy stuff is branded an “anti-intellectual” and attempts are made to marginalize them and supress public exposure to their crititcism.

After all nobody has to argue with kooks if they don’t want to. So if you can make all your critics seem like kooks you are home free. Of course after long period of time with no serious challenges the academics often begin to devolve into nuts who teach and believe absurd things. Sadly sometimes their students get a very skewed view of reality and they act on this view and often ignore any evidence that does not fit with that view. It’s a real shame.

To Kevin S: No, it’s not that I hold anyone who disagrees with me in contempt, it’s the people who seemingly have no purpose in life other than to make clueless, cruel insults, pass along the most idiotic rumors, have no intention of ever considering the merits of any idea that originates from people deemed political/cultural rivals, and all in all contribute to getting nothing done except to make the world a worse, more cruel place that I hold in real contempt. People who disagree with me, on the other hand, are simply goofy.

122. James Gottlieb (responding to BC) wrote:
Any time you want to try and make a real point about anything then feel free. Otherwise, I hope your highly vague yet self righteous outburst impressed you a tad bit more than it has impressed me.

Peter writes: I have learned (the hard way) that it is much easier to simply ignore the rants and lunatic ravings of the libtard trolls that post here most often, like BC, vivo, moho, now and then, and jharp. They offer nothing to the discussion and arte only here to get a rise out of real Americans or (more likely) because they are paid to do so by leftist entities like Soros.

It’s much easier to keep the discussion on track, and meaningful, if you simply skip over any posts that come from such disingenuous leftist posters, like I and many other regulars here on PJM do.

Unfortunately there’s little any of the ‘plebs’ can do to change the future short of rolling out the guillotines again. If the US military however gets really abused then they got trouble in D.C. big time. A US military Coup D’Etat is not impossible especially when the vast majority of the intelligence community and the military are very conservative Christian Right Wing “white is right” people. I live in Utah where such folks are known to say, “Obama won’t last the first term (alive).” These are folks who are religious, organized, well-armed and well-placed in the military, FBI and CIA infrastructure. Rogue elements of these services always existed it’s just hard to know who they are because they can be quite ‘harmless’ appearing. The alliances of local militias is growing at a nasty pace. The white hoods and robes are ‘in’ big time. The endgame will, unfortunately, not be good for anybody.